Yes, but if a process gets a SIGKILL, the user is explicitly saying that they don't want that process to do anything else. Otherwise, they would send a SIGTERM.

Yes, but if a process gets a SIGKILL, the user is explicitly saying that they don't want that process to do anything else. Otherwise, they would send a SIGTERM. So a SIGKILL is really the user passing the responsibility of the children onto some other process.